PCR Overlap Extension
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Create long DNA fragments from shorter ones. This method is also called "Splicing by Overlap Extension" or SOEing.
- Design Primers:
- These primers are like bridges between the two parts you want to assemble together.
- You will order two primers which are complements of one another.
- These primers will each have a 60°C Tm with one part and a 60°C Tm with the other part.
- PCR amplify the necessary fragments separately:
- Use a proofreading polymerase enzyme.
- Use an annealing temp of 60°C.
- Clean up or gel extract the correct size band.
- Use cleaned up fragments as template and primers in a PCR reaction.
- about 1/2 to volume of the extension reaction should be equimolar amounts of purified fragments.
- Do not use Phusion polymerase. Try Pfu Turbo.
- Run 15 PCR cycles without primers. (Template extension step)
- Add end primers
- Continue cycling for another 15-20 rounds.
- Gel extract the correct size fragment.
- Clone into the desired vector.